Job 20:8

New English Translation

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Cross References

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

Job 18:11

Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

Job 18:18

He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

Job 27:20

Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

Job 7:21

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

Psalm 18:10

He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.

Psalm 73:20

They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Psalm 90:5

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

Proverbs 10:25

When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

Daniel 11:19

He will then turn his attention to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall, not to be found again.